[kopete-bugs] [Bug 103691] Allow sending remote kio files

[ietc at gmx.net]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103691


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--- Comment #11 from  <ietc gmx net>  2009-10-27 03:58:38 ---
Come to think of it, I could swear that I used to be able to send files from an
kio_sftp (sftp://) source to AIM and ICQ buddies (only contacts I have).  I
assumed that KIO then did whatever magic was needed to complete the transaction
(my guess: either opened a connection to the file and tricked the IM protocol
into thinking it was local, which it looked like, or copied the file to /tmp
and sent from there).

Then I updated to 0.80.2 (openSUSE Factory KDE4 repository 4.3.1-110.2) and now
the filepicker insists that I "can only select local files" (three times in a
row, in fact) with a popup titled "Remote files not acce[pted]".  Trying to
drag'n'drop the remote file (from Dolphin) just pastes its sftp:// URL into the
input line.

Regardless of whether I could, in fact, do that in the past, I think it a very
good enhancement that would make dealing with remote files a whole lot more
pleasant than requiring that we mount a remote directory (not always possible)
or manually copy the file to a local directory only to delete it after the send
(very inconvenient).  As we move to a more networked environment, I think it
only good to reduce the difference in interfacing with remote files from local
ones.  Hope that seems reasonable, since I do a lot of accessing data over
SFTP.

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